Events on Wednesday, March 17
Wednesday 3/17 @ E3rd Steakhouse
Jerico's monthly cocktail-and-art adventure comes a tad early, in honor of everyone's favorite drinking game: St. Patrick's Day. Although changing theme...
Wednesday 3/17 @ The Cinefamily
From its title, Women Love Diamonds sounds like a genteel, sweet romance, but is really a melodrama that's surprisingly gritty for...
Reading the Plays of Wendy Wasserstein
Wednesday 3/17 @ Book Soup
Jan Balakian presents and signs Reading the Plays of Wendy Wasserstein. From the first waves of feminism to...
Wednesday 3/17 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Performing 13th- and 14th-century polyphony and chant, the haunting, otherworldly voices of this Grammy-winning quartet return to...
Great Guitars: Richard Thompson
Wednesday 3/17 @ The GRAMMY Museum
The GRAMMY Museum welcomes guitar virtuoso and British folk rock icon Richard Thompson to its state-of-the-art Sound Stage. Before an intimate audience...
Wednesday 3/17 @ The Echo & Echoplex
On St. Patrick’s Day, Ollin, the world-folk-punk fusion outfit from East L.A. will perform Rum, Sodomy and the Lash by The...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 3/17 @ LAXART
Kamrooz Aram and Artemio engage in an unhinging of the standard mechanisms of image-making, challenging social norms in the process. Artemio's...
How Many Billboards? Art in Stead
Wednesday 3/17 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
In New York, street art is tagged on the sides of buildings and pasted on empty storefronts. In Los Angeles, a...
Wednesday 3/17 @ Bar Copa
You know and love him as part of the erstwhile west-side club night Funky in the Middle, as well as the...
Wednesday 3/17 @ Edward Cella Art + Architecture
At a time when the country of Chile is foremost in the world's thoughts for tragic reasons, Mary Heebner's long-planned exhibition...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Wednesday 3/17 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
Severed heads, skulls and daggers brimming with blood, and cemeteries littered with dismembered corpses may not readily invoke visions of spiritual...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Wednesday 3/17 @ The Getty Museum
Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past...
Art Against Empire: Graphic Responses to U.S. Interventions Since W.W.II
Wednesday 3/17 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Art Against Empire, culled from the extensive holdings of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, offers over 100 selected...
Wednesday 3/17 @ Khastoo Gallery
Khastoo goes from art gallery to temporary pop-up shop, teaming up with Stor and Quentin Smith's Smithshop to sell not just...
Wednesday 3/17 @ Arclight Sherman Oaks
Known primarily for its iconic outdoor amphitheatre and legendary musical acts, the Hollywood Bowl is offering fans a glimpse into the...
Wednesday 3/17 @ Little Temple
Starting this month, if it's Wednesday, it's time to hit the dance floor at the Little Temple, where they've scored some...
Wednesday 3/17 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Photographer, painter, installation artist, and skate legend Ed Templeton is a natural documentarian, first coming to the art world's attention with...
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) w/ Uli Edel and Bernd Eichinger in person
Wednesday 3/17 @ Egyptian Theatre
Adapted from Stefan Aust's 1985 publication, The Baader Meinhof Complex chronicles the reckless idealism and hectic resolve of Germany's Red Army...
Wednesday 3/17 @ SolwayJones Gallery
In this dual-venue mini-retrospective of works mainly from the mid-'70s and early '80s, SolwayJones and Kunsthalle L.A. set up an intriguing...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Wednesday 3/17 @ Skirball Cultural Center
The subject of an engaging exhibition and lavishly appended new book, Eric Etheridge's contemporary photographic portraits of this group of American...
Wednesday 3/17 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Wednesday 3/17 @ Armory Center for the Arts
From 1966-2001, legendary artist Robert Rauschenberg partnered with the impressive printmakers at LA's Gemini G.E.L. to produce an astonishing 250-plus groundbreaking...
Wednesday 3/17 @ Downtown Center East/West Gallery
Michael Salerno has been a pillar of the artistic community of writers and painters that has made Downtown LA the epicenter...
Wednesday 3/17 @ Various Los Angeles theaters
A compelling polemic by Philly-based Don Argott, The Art of the Steal looks at the bitter, decades-long fight over the Barnes...
Wednesday 3/17 @ Affinity Galleries
Affinity Galleries, previously known as the Circus Gallery, presents an innovative group show that effectively redefines the term "multimedia." Exhibiting photography,...
Wednesday 3/17 @ Jeanie Madsen Gallery
A 79-year old society hairdresser, New York photographer Victor Friedman has been moonlighting as a photojournalist for 45 years. Now, he...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Wednesday 3/17 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Known most famously for his reign as one of theater's greatest playwrights, British-born Noël Coward wore many other hats: singer, actor,...
Wednesday 3/17 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Sumi Ink Club represents a new ethos in the art world, one that builds on the playful spirit of artists like...
Wednesday 3/17 @ Michael Benevento Los Angeles
Updegraff's debut exhibition with Michael Benevento is an elegant evolution of the artist's exploration of the power-play between subject and author,...
Wednesday 3/17 @ Crewest Gallery
The Cool 5, better known as TC-5, were responsible for the graffiti, fashion, and all-around scene-making that made the NYC outdoor...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Wednesday 3/17 @ GRAMMY Museum at LA Live
The recently opened GRAMMY Museum at Downtown's mammoth entertainment complex LA Live offers visitors a rare, intimate glimpse into the life...
Wednesday 3/17 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Where London has the Victoria and Albert, LA has the Craft and Folk Art Museum; yet, too often, the little institution...
Wednesday 3/17 @ Coast Playhouse
A "bone"-ified smash. With "organ" accompaniment. Now that that's out of the way, yes, Puppetry of the Penis is exactly what...
Portraiture for the Silicon Enlightenment
Wednesday 3/17 @ Kinkead Contemporary
Curated by Angela Dufresne, the Fuckheads group show features artists who challenge traditional ways of seeing, moving away from portraiture aligned...
Wednesday 3/17 @ American Jewish University
Each of the artists in the three-person show, Body and Soul, carries an impressive list of achievements. Featuring work by Kathryn...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Wednesday 3/17 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Wednesday 3/17 @ Jancar Gallery
Los Angeles artist Mery Lynn McCorkle exhibits new mixed-media works combining rich, saturated colors with visceral, almost topographic textures, distressed surfaces,...
Wednesday 3/17 @ The Continental Gallery
Between their individual projects and their extensive collaborative undertakings, the six artists in Focus Daily operate in photography, painting, fashion, video,...
Wednesday 3/17 @ Mr. Musichead Gallery
For over 30 years, music-industry photography vet Jay Blakesberg has made a career of shooting tripped-out rock icons such as Jerry...
Wednesday 3/17 @ New Beverly Cinema
Even if you've ingested a lifetime's worth of gleeful J-horror violence or knowing, Raimi-style bloodletting, nothing quite prepares you for House,...
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Wednesday 3/17 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Does having more Best Picture nominations affect the quality of films made? Maybe not. But then again, the last time 10...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Wednesday 3/17 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
The Los Angeles River has been having a comeback, if you can argue that it was ever popular to begin with....
Wednesday 3/17 @ DNJ Gallery
The often-haunting nightscapes of Night Lights reveal how city environments can become both isolating and poetic with the absence of daylight....
Wednesday 3/17 @ Charlie James Gallery
Travis Somerville is one of the west coast's fastest-rising art stars, first coming to national attention as the winner of the...
Wednesday 3/17 @ Art Center College of Design
Rightfully entitled DreamWorlds, this short exhibition at the Williamson Gallery features the work of the Dreamworks animation artists that help bring...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Wednesday 3/17 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
In conjunction with the installation of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's stunning Comtesse d’Haussonville, 1845, on loan from The Frick Collection in New...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Wednesday 3/17 @ The Getty Museum
Over 180 ancient glass objects from the collection of Erwin Oppenländer are featured in this exhibition. The Oppenländer collection, which the Getty...
Wednesday 3/17 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Resident DJs Tom Chasteen, Roy Corderoy, the Dungeonmaster, and Boss Harmony spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall.
Wednesday 3/17 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Imagine yourself immersed in a favorite childhood tale. Five years in the making and occupying an 8,000-square-foot gallery, Noah's Ark at...
Wednesday 3/17 @ Art Center College of Design
Illustration students from Art Center College of Design currently have their work on display at the Aquarium of the Pacific in...
